Abstract
Este libro contribuye al análisis de la producción cultural de dos autoras minoritarias chicanas de finales del siglo diecinueve y principios del veinte: María Amparo Ruíz de Burton y Jovita González. Tras una aproximación hermenéutica a los textos de estas primeras escritoras (Who Would Have Thought It?, The Squatter and the Don y Dew on the Thorn), el libro sugiere la existencia de una indudable y embrionaria conciencia chicana, que se puede apreciar en la (re)presentación de mujeres en un proceso de autodefinición y de búsqueda de una identidad de frontera, y propone que ya desde finales del siglo diecinueve empieza a surgir una conciencia política generada a través de un incipiente discurso feminista y anti-colonial. El carácter de frontera, en términos lotmanianos de estas narraciones explica el inicio de una fuerte crítica o temprana resistencia cultural que hoy día podría llamarse chicana y que plantea una negociación con la cultura anglosajona. Estas dos escritoras resultan ser mediadoras entre ambas culturas, Malinches de finales del diecinueve y principios del siglo veinte. La metodología empleada engloba una perspectiva de crítica feminista, postcolonial y de la semiótica cultural de Yuri Lotman
Author's note: This book contributes to the analysis of the cultural output of two Chicano subalterns at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th: Maria Amparo Ruíz de Burton and Jovita González de Mireles. Using a hermeneutic approach to the texts of these early writers, this book suggests the existence of a definite embryonic Chicano conscience, reflecting as they do women in a process of self-definition and in search of a new border identity. By the end of the 19th century, a political conscience is already starting to develop, generated by an incipient feminist and anti-colonial discourse. The semiospheric border character of these narratives sheds a light on the emergence of a strong critique or early cultural resistance which today could be called Chicana and which sparks a debate with the Anglo-Saxon culture. These two writers serve to provide a link between the two cultures, they are the Malinches of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and this book is the first that brings together their work and points out their marked feminist and postcolonial character. The methodology employed in the book encompasses feminist and post-colonial criticism together with Lotman’s cultural semiotics.
Author's note: This book contributes to the analysis of the cultural output of two Chicano subalterns at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th: Maria Amparo Ruíz de Burton and Jovita González de Mireles. Using a hermeneutic approach to the texts of these early writers, this book suggests the existence of a definite embryonic Chicano conscience, reflecting as they do women in a process of self-definition and in search of a new border identity. By the end of the 19th century, a political conscience is already starting to develop, generated by an incipient feminist and anti-colonial discourse. The semiospheric border character of these narratives sheds a light on the emergence of a strong critique or early cultural resistance which today could be called Chicana and which sparks a debate with the Anglo-Saxon culture. These two writers serve to provide a link between the two cultures, they are the Malinches of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and this book is the first that brings together their work and points out their marked feminist and postcolonial character. The methodology employed in the book encompasses feminist and post-colonial criticism together with Lotman’s cultural semiotics.
Original language | Spanish |
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Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Number of pages | 253 |
Volume | 44 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-0353-0210-3 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-0343-0264-7 |
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Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Publication series
Name | Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas |
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Publisher | Peter Lang |
ISSN (Print) | 1661-4720 |